[Daveb2]

Pretty good, not bad, i'm fine
Actually i'm handing you a line
Truth is i feel oh so depressed
But like others you never guessed

Somedays i wonder who i am
Other days i don't give a ****
Somedays i'm happy to be me
Other days i don't know who i'd like to be

Every morning in the mirror i see
A stranger looking back at me
Who is this person standing here
Whose own identity is so unclear

This emptyness is really hurting me
But i make sure you will never see
That what happened so long ago
Still causes pain that hurts me so

I fight these feelings with all my might
But from this pain there's no respite
I know this wound will forever last
A curse that follows from my past

A dreadful inside of emptyness
Always seeming to be something less
Than whatever i may try to be
Feels like there's no love for me

I could have made more of my life
But wasted time on internal strife
Maybe i should try much much more
But i can't see what i'm striving for

This wound goes deep inside my heart
Grown from that very early start
It started on that self same day
When a mother gave her child away

If you could see inside my mind
You would see a child left behind
A child that for it's mother cries
With powerful love that never dies

Death for me will hold no pain
I will be with my mother again
For us again things will be right
Reunited in that heavenly light

D J Butler 2009